We aren't referring to the Thorough scan which takes a very long time as it is at the opposite side of the scale to Quick.

The ashQuick.exe is in all versions of avast it is normally used to scan downloaded files or single files, etc. but some avast 4 Home users like Alan use it to scan their system in conjunction with windows task scheduler. The Home version doesn't have a scheduled scan function, so they use this as a workaround to do scheduled scans.

I am not only not a member of the avast team I am cheap too. avast does not provide the ability to schedule a scan in the Home version. So some of us use the features of the ashquick module to run a scheduled task to scan.

ashquick is the program that runs when you right click on a file in the explorer file listing and allows you the option to scan the file with avast. It is also the program that is often used in conjunction with downloaders to immediately scan a newly downloaded file.

Today I did a Standard scan on the same laptop. I got strange results. It took only 38 mins 13 secs and only scanned 10.6gb files. Figure that out! I haven't removed any programs or files except for cache cleaning with CCleaner.

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I just rescanned with quickscan, 41min 13sec, 15.6 gb of files scanned. Strange that a quick scan scans more files that standard scans Maybe that explains why quick scans take longer than standard scans

Maybe the ALWIL team mislabeled the scans

Why the inconsistant results

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So they were almost identical, the Quick scan was 20sec slower, but the Standard scan only scanned 39 more files and 1 more folder. So to me it would appear it is a waste of time using the Quick scan when the Standard one is quicker and scans marginally more files.

Compare that with my previous Standard scans (pre 4. where the total scanned size was the same, but the duration was only just over 11mins, so an increase in my scan duration of about 41% on the Standard scan. I didn't take detailed files/folder counts, but the 39,000+ would also be correct.